Recast TOS Characters in the STD-Verse

[lawman]

First of all, while Memory Alpha is a great resource (and I'm sure the show's creators appreciate it as such), it's a wiki and it's far from infallible. It's also not canon per se, although it usually does a decent job of making clear whether what it's describing is or isn't.

Second, nothing about what you quoted says Thing One about what Scotty was doing in the 2250s, except that he wasn't yet a Chief Engineer. The same entry confirms that he (as of "Relics") he had served on 11 different ships over the course of his Starfleet career, so obviously he moved around a fair bit. It's eminently reasonable to suppose that he could have served under Pike for a while, or even simply visited the Enterprise temporarily for some reason or another. If you're reading the entry as saying Kirk's command was necessarily the Very First Time he set foot on the Enterprise, you're reading in more than the entry actually says.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I'm not going to argue with you, but "nothing explicitly says it couldn't have happened so there's a chance that it did in fact happen" is extremely faulty logic.

 

[lawman]

Actually, it's perfectly reasonable logic. It's a prequel; that's the kind of logic prequels use all the time.

At any rate, you started off with the blanket statement that "Scotty was not on the Enterprise in the 2250s." I merely pointed out that we don't actually know that one way or another.

Inasmuch as we were teased to expect "surprises" aboard the Enterprise, and there are damn few familiar characters who were active and available during the period, it's a reasonable speculation. In that vein, I asked both (A) who might be good to cast as Scotty, and (B) who else people thought might qualify as a "surprise." Any ideas along those lines?

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Debra Messing as Janice Lester. Jim and Janice anyone?

 

[philip_1]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EBkJYS9pjdb3kVXdVTGNmrTGSe0slp4M
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A4Rgtd2S32UWm5cGgqENXSxZTduSg4IX

Anson Mount as Captain Pike
Bridget Regan as Number One

 

[rhllot]

Olivia Wilde as Number One

Ezra Miller as spock

 

[ChristopherPike]

Given it's not a show that follows the Enterprise, they could get away with occasional glimpses of Jeffrey Hunter. Brought to life, the way Peter Cushing was in Rogue One... but more sympathetic to the technical limitations with appearances as a glitchy hologram. Or largely static scenes where he delegates tasks to an all-new crew member to beam over and do.

Either that, or CGI Ray Liotta back to how he looked in his Goodfellas days.

It does raise a question what uniforms they're wearing over there. Cage era cosplays or matching Discovery blue suits. I'm not sure why the evolution from the Pilot outfits to the Original Series proper coloured tops, has to be broken. Especially when what Starfleet is wearing pre-figures the Cage, and perhaps ought to be in the process of being phased out.

 

[Kane_Steel]

Ezra Miller as Spock is hilarious.

*imagines Spock speaking with Ezra's voice*

 

[Kane_Steel]

Credit to poster CaptainMurdock

Anson as Pike;

 

[Mudd]

Searching the online transcripts of "The Menagerie" I don't see anything that absolutely establishes that Spock's service aboard the Enterprise was unbroken from the time of "The Cage" up until "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

If so, there's no reason that Discovery can't set a few scenes aboard the Enterprise while avoiding, for the moment, recasting Spock.

Hell, Supergirl went a season before bringing Superman on, and then they avoided involving Lois Lane or Perry White except for a brief cell phone conversation.

 

[Kane_Steel]

Let's not use CW's Supergirl as an example of quality though...

 

[Longinus]

Ezra Miller as spock

That actually isn't a completely terrible idea. We already know he can rock the hairstyle!

 

[Tallguy]

Yes, we do. Quoting from Memory Alpha, which has been endorsed in the past by people directly involved with the Star Trek franchise:

If you look at Memory Alpha, the reference for that statement is Where No Man Has Gone Before. Nowhere in that episode does it say that this was when Scotty was assigned to the Enterprise. It doesn't say one way or the other.

DC Fontana says that Scotty was on the Enterprise with Pike. So it isn't out of the realm of possibility. Either way.

 

[rhllot]

That actually isn't a completely terrible idea. We already know he can rock the hairstyle!

looks good

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fixed that for ya

Even after googling I've no idea who that is.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Even after googling I've no idea who that is.

For the last few seasons of Law & Order: SVU, Raul Esparza played Rafael Barba, the assistant district attorney.

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[Nerys Myk]

For the last few seasons of Law & Order: SVU, Raul Esparza played Rafael Barba, the assistant district attorney.

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The only Law and Order I've watched was called "Law and Order"

 

[Mudd]

Let's not use CW's Supergirl as an example of quality though...

It's sort of aspirational for a show like STD.

 

[fireproof78]

The only Law and Order I've watched was called "Law and Order"

What was it about?

 

[Nerys Myk]

What was it about?

As I understand it, in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. It's about them.